These creatures normally inhabit mountainous areas, Dungeons, and sometimes lakes. These spidery things jump about all over the place. The blue ones are somewhat more durable than the red Tektites. Both red and blue Tektites have the same attack power, but the blue are twice as durable as the red. Also, three of the four tektite strewnfields have been linked by their age and chemical and isotopic composition to known impact craters. The resulting charged tektites are then considered a mated pair and are use by two people at distant locations to … The uncanny agility of Tektites allows them to easily attack and possibly dislodge Link from horseback, even if he travels at top speed. As both have the same amount of health, the same vulnerabilities, and the same movement patterns including floating on water, red and blue. These foes tend to appear in small groups, and have the tendency to leap around the landscape. Although their habitat changes from game to game, all Tektites attack by jumping towards Link and slamming into him. Millimeter-scale tektites are known as microtektites. These Tektites also shoot beams at Link. [24] O'Keefe, Povenmire, and Futrell claimed on the basis of behavior of glass melts that the homogenization, which is called "fining", of silica melts that characterize tektites could not be explained by the terrestrial-impact theory. Tektites (from Greek τηκτός tēktós, "molten") are gravel-sized bodies composed of black, green, brown, or gray natural glass formed from terrestrial debris ejected during meteorite impacts. H. Povenmire, B. Burrer, J. H. Cornec, and R. S. Harris (2012).

[5], On the basis of morphology and physical characteristics, tektites have traditionally been divided into four groups. As Link and Zelda are enjoying a picnic, they are interrupted when an Underworld entrance begins to raise and a gang of Tektites come out from it. [2][3][4][19][20], Although the formation of and widespread distribution of tektites is widely accepted to require the intense (superheated) melting of near-surface sediments and rocks at the impact site and the following high-velocity ejection of this material from the impact crater, the exact processes involved remain poorly understood. Tektites appear mostly in the Tal Tal Mountain Range and northern Koholint Island. [2][3][4], The difference in water content can be used to distinguish tektites from terrestrial volcanic glasses. This page was last edited on 30 August 2020, at 18:25.

They are identical in appearance to their counterparts from Four Swords. Tektites have little fighting power. It's nothing like a dog, though, so maybe it's like a spider that's had four of its legs pulled off. Tektites are found in mountainous areas.

They generally range in size from millimeters to centimeters. [clarification needed] They also argued that the terrestrial-impact theory could not explain the vesicles and extremely low water and other volatile content of tektites. — Figurine description. First, they are completely glassy and lack any microlites or phenocrysts, unlike terrestrial volcanic glasses. They come in blue and red versions, with the red ones being both faster and more durable than the blue ones.

Tektites are recurring Enemies in The Legend of Zelda series.[3]. Senftle, F. E., A. N. Thorpe, J. R. Grant, A. Hildebrand, H. Moholy-Nagy, B. J. Evans, and L. May (2000), Artemieva, N., E. Pierazzo, and D. Stoffler (2002), As early as 1893, the Australian geologist Victor Franz Paul Streich (? When heated to their melting point, terrestrial volcanic glasses turn into a foamy glass because of their content of water and other volatiles. A limited amount of evidence is interpreted as indicating that the proposed Central American strewn field likely covers Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and possibly parts of southern Mexico. In "That Sinking Feeling", Tektites are shown to be capable of shooting spider webs out of their mouth. is from the Greek tektos, meaning "molten". These Tektites are more like the ones found in The Legend of Zelda, but they are more aware of Link's sword and will leap backwards to dodge whenever he strikes with it. As opposed to earlier incarnations of Tektites, red and blue Tektites are defined by the point at the top of their head; red Tektites are slower and weaker, while blue Tektites require more strikes to defeat and move much faster. They come in a red and a blue variety, with the red variety leaping around more frequently than the blue. [10] The consensus of Earth and planetary scientists regards the chemical, i.e. [11] Limiting to diameters 10 km or more and younger than 50 Ma, the study yielded a list of 13 candidate craters, of which the youngest eight are given below.

Red ones move about a lot and blue ones move only a little. Tektite TechnicalLighting Products Helicopter LZSolutions IR Runway, LZ& DZ Lighting Portable RunwayLights Tactical & SpecialOps Lights Infrared Lights& Beacons Dive Lights & Strobe Beacons Technical DivingLights Submarine Escape& UW EOD Lights Professional UV & CSIIdentification Lights. Non-canon warning: Non-canonical information ends here. Their epidermis is white with a red spot on the top horn.

Microtektites are typically found in deep-sea sediments that are of the same ages as those of the four known strewn fields.

[2][3][19][20], Though the meteorite impact theory of tektite formation is widely accepted, there has been considerable controversy about their origin in the past. In this game, their appearance is changed to a small, featureless central body with squared legs. Glass (2009), Barnes, V.E. Artemieva, Natalia, Tektite Origin in Oblique Impact: Numerical Modeling of the Initial Stage, in "Impacts in Precambrian Shields", edited by Jüri Plado, Lauri J. Pesonen, p. 272. Link races up a hill to hide behind the boulder, and just as he dives to hide, he turns around to find a pack of Tektites have surrounded him. After ejection from the impact crater, the material formed millimeter- to centimeter-sized bodies of molten material, which as they re-entered the atmosphere, rapidly cooled to form tektites that fell to Earth to create a layer of distal ejecta hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from the impact site.